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Poster:
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B. Stockwell |
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January 07, 2010 05:48:42pm |
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classic_tv
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Re: A Treasure Chest of Sitcom Gold! |
There were dozens and dozen of records in the Hi-Q catalog. The various LPS, 45s, and reel-to-reel tapes were produced by Capitol Records. Not available on CD - yet! About 75 records were released and, Golly Gosh, has that music with stood the Test-o-Time! There is an amazingly info-crammed thread about the Hi-Q series at Soundtrack Collectors:
http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/forum/displayquestion.php?topicid=7027Someone bought 57 of the LPs on eBay for $100.00. (Most of the cost was for shipping them - to Sweden!)
And yes, Hi-Q is supposed to remind you of I.Q. and, yep, is short for High Quality.
Even now, there are six of these LPs and almost three DOZEN reel-t-reel tapes on eBay. I'm going to try to get the six LPs; tomorrow's pay day, after all. IF I get them - IF! - they'll be digitally transferred to The Achive and you'll be the first to know, gang.
Wish me luck 'cause when I win, we ALL win!
More basic info: Hi-Q was a brand and library of production music produced and distributed by Capitol Records in the late 1950s-early 1960s. It saw quite a bit of use in several movies and other productions, most notably in the 1968 film Night of the Living Dead, in which producer Karl Hardman used tracks from the library and then enhanced them by adding electronic effects (such as echo and reverb).
The Ren and Stimpy Show, Amazon Women on the Moon, Gumby and countless other productions have also used cues from the Hi-Q library.
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